In humans and many other animals, a mother's age can affect the physical and behavioral characteristics of the next ...

Nature invented biodegradable plastic long before humans did—and animals may have been feeding on it for hundreds of millions ...

A 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina contains evidence that the animal may have given birth to live young ...

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and ...

A protein inside appetite-controlling brain cells may play an important role in preventing overeating and obesity, particularly when high-fat foods are readily available. Unexpected differences ...

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In many turtles, the temperature around an embryo can help determine whether it develops as male or female. That makes turtle ...

When most baby turtles hatch, their sex depends on the temperature of the sand or soil where their mother laid her eggs. Warm ...

A human kidney is built once, before birth, and the rules guiding its construction have been largely inferred from animal models. Researchers at Penn Medicine have now read those rules directly in ...

Machine learning models expedite vaccine research and development by digging through haystacks of data to find the best ...

A rare two-headed crested gecko named Simon and Garfunkel was born five weeks ago at Rockstar Geckos in northeastern ...

For an animal to develop normally, cells must not only become the right types but also do so at the right time. In the worm C ...